Sublime

strange misapplication of the rigorous but quite limited methods of the modern empirical sciences to questions properly belonging to the realms of logic and of spiritual experience.

Among the philosophical sources, perhaps most influential was the work of the educator and social innovator Rudolf Steiner, whose synthesis of science, consciousness, and social innovation continues to inspire my work and whose methodological grounding in Goethe’s phenomenological view of science has left the most significant imprint on Theory U.

If there is any value in the arcane reconstructions of the ancient school for the modern thinker intrigued by Stoicism, it lies in this grand, integrative vision of a good human life, guided by the relentless and unsentimental use of reason in a quest for the best available understanding of the orderly world around us.

Wenn Werte möglichst wenig verletzen sollen, dürfen sie nicht das Wesen dessen verkennen, für das sie gelten. Sie müssen berücksichtigen, wer und was es ist. Diese Einsicht hatte es freilich gerade in den letzten Jahrzehnten besonders schwer.

Life is either obligatory, or due to contingency.

assessment of value and limitations.

What a sad fate for a philosophy that even one of its occasional critics, Arthur Schopenhauer, would describe as “the highest point to which man can attain by the mere use of his faculty of reason.”

Introduction 1 The Sovereignty of the Good in Seventeenth-Century

Philosophy of Right